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In archaeology, a sherd is a fragment of pottery or other ceramic. A sherd may be either historic or prehistoric in nature. Occasionally, the same item may be referred to as a potsherd or shard, although the latter term is generally reserved for glass.

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The Mavens' Word of the Day (0 words)
	A potsherd is a pottery fragment, but what matters here is the usual context of the word.
	Potsherd is chiefly found in archaeological writings--there aren't many places nowadays you'll encounter broken clay pots outside of an archaeological dig--and the connotation of the word is that a potsherd is a pottery fragment that has some archaeological value.
	Potsherd is formed from pot in the usual sense of 'a container', and sherd, an archaic variant of shard 'a fragment'.

Job 2:8 And he took a potsherd to scrape himself while he (313 words)
	And he took a potsherd to scrape himself with; and he sat among the ashes.
	And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself with it; and he sat down among the ashes.
	Job 2:8 YLT: And he taketh to him a potsherd to scrape himself with it, and he is sitting in the midst of the ashes.

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